Tripoli, Aug 31 (ANI): Rebel leaders have rejected plans by the United Nations (UN) to send hundreds of international forces into liberated Libya, insisting that they will secure the country themselves.
According to a leaked document drafted by a Libyan taskforce reporting to Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General called for up to 200 military observers and 190 UN police to help stabilise the country.
These observers were meant to oversee the process of dealing with a number of loyalist forces of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi who had surrendered, while the police would also have helped train local forces under the new regime.
It is believed that Jordan and Turkey had been approached over the role of heading the multinational force, which would also have protected a planned UN mission comprising dozens of civilian officials.
However leaders of the National Transitional Council, who have been in frequent contact with high-level UN officials, have ruled out the possibility of foreign forces playing a major role, The Telegraph reports.
Ian Martin, Ban's special adviser on post-conflict planning for Libya, told a meeting of global bodies engaged in the country: "We are not now expecting a request for any United Nations military deployment".
However he added: "We stand ready to bring the extensive experience the United Nations has developed from so many post-conflict contexts".
Gaddafi's whereabouts are currently not known, but reports had emerged yesterday that his family had been smuggled into Algeria. (ANI)
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